Metallic Realms landing May 13th!
Booklist: “Exciting and tragic and funny and bewildering and just plain wonderful.”
Publishers Weekly: Starred review⭐ “A riveting tale of a sci-fi writing group and its obsessive hanger-on…This captivates.”
Esquire: “A brilliant, funny, and pulpy homage to the golden age of science fiction.”
“This is the the great novel of stan culture” – Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life and The Late Americans.
“Compulsively inventive and in love with language…a total blast!” – Ed Park, author of Same Bed Different Dreams
The Speculative Shelf: “Filled with endless geeky goodness…A delightfully meta concept, executed to perfection.”
The Chicago Review of Books: “The brilliance of Metallic Realms will burn your senses.”
“A marvelous romp of a book, a tragicomic interweaving of tales, a kaleidoscopic journey that takes place simultaneously in a city apartment and in the vast reaches of space. With his characteristic wit and intellect, Lincoln Michel unearths all sorts of truths about loneliness, community, creativity, and fan culture. I couldn’t put this book down, and it delighted me at every turn.” —Helen Phillips, author of The Need and Hum
“A wild, playful, mind-bending ride, Metallic Realms is an homage in equal parts to Nabokov and to online indie writing communities. A novel ultimately about the sacred communing that takes place when the writer’s imagination meets that of the reader. It is a one-of-a-kind novel that only Lincoln Michel could have written.” —Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged
“A brilliant, inventive satire of writers and super fans, even better for its obvious affection towards both. Lincoln Michel is one of the most surprising speculative writers working today, and this witty planet-hopping love letter to pulp science fiction is the most fun I’ve had reading all year.” —Matt Bell, author of Appleseed
“Metallic Realms accomplishes in prose what the classic silent comedians accomplished on film, turning the trips and missteps of a born fumbler into acrobatics: Nothing goes well, but perfectly. Delightful to behold.” —Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations
“A synapse-blasting paean to devotional geekdom and the fugue state of starving artistry, this spectacular postmodern funhouse brims with literary delight on every page. Lincoln Michel is our canniest, most gleeful genre-exploder, and Metallic Realms is a galactic achievement.” —Henry Hoke, author of Open Throat
NEW NOVEL FORTHCOMING:
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Science fiction novel out now!!
New York Times: “Timeless and original…a wild ride, sad and funny, surreal and intelligent.”
Boing Boing: “A modern cyberpunk classic.”
Esquire: One of the 50 best science fiction novels of all time
“The Body Scout is the kind of wild, inventive adventure that I’d been searching for. It scratched a special itch: sly and smart, weird and wonderful, all in one package. A little bit Philip K. Dick, and I detect hints of Julio Cortázar too. Lincoln Michel is a wildly talented author and this novel is something special indeed.” – Victor LaValle
“The Body Scout is a fizzy and brilliant confabulation, an anticorporate extrapolative throwdown that is equal parts Pohl-and-Kornbluth and George Saunders, with loads of heart, a skewed and hilarious language all its own, and the audacity to propose that the New York Mets could win a World Series by competent skullduggery. I devoured it.” –Jonathan Lethem
“A weird and hopefully not prescient techno-thriller… one part William Gibson, one part Cory Doctorow… It’s a dizzying world but catnip for cyberpunk fans.” – Kirkus
“Holy cats, I don’t even know where to start with this amazing book!…This is a wild, inventive sci-fi thriller with a lot of heart and a lot of humor, and it also addresses a lot of philosophical questions about cloning and body modification. Imagine if Mickey Spillane wrote Blade Runner—it’s a lot like that.” – Liberty Hardy at BookRiot
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from Booklist: “42 authors of both horror and literary fiction surprise, scare, and confound in this outstanding anthology… Highly recommended for all fiction collections.”
from PW: “Masterful . . . This carefully crafted and genuinely scary collection is sure to impress.”
New novel coming next year!
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Upright Beasts, Coffee House Press 2015
LINCOLN MICHEL 